Ireland - MEP Sinnott calls on the Irish Government to amend EIA laws
MEP Sinnott calls on the Irish Government to amend EIA laws
Kathy Sinnott, MEP for Ireland South and Member of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee, and Dr Vyvyan Howard recently met with the European Commission's Public Health and Consumer Protection directorate on the dangers to human health posed by water fluoridation in Ireland.
Dr. Howard, of the University of Ulster, is a fetal toxicologist studying the effects of toxins on the health and development of babies before birth. He pointed out that we are compromising human health from conception by adding fluoride to drinking water. Toxic fluoride compounds are known to affect many other parts of the body including bones, teeth, thyroid as well as the developing brain. The excuse that it helps teeth should be questioned when nearly four in ten Irish teenagers have dental fluorosis -- permanent damage to the tooth enamel -- and this is three times that of their counterparts in unfluoridated Northern Ireland.
Commented Kathy Sinnott, who is hosting MEP to two petitions on fluoridation and Vice President of the Petitions Committee, "Over the last 20 years the Chinese have done extensive research on the effects of fluoride on brain development in children. Those studies which are already accessible to us in English, should cause us to be very concerned that public water supplies in Ireland are deliberately fluoridated for the simple reason that this fluoridated water may be affecting expectant mothers here."
Seven of the most recent studies are scheduled to be published in English by the end of the year. However even now there is sufficient evidence for us to demand the immediate cessation of Irish water fluoridation. Five of the seven studies indicate that fluoride causes a significant lowering of IQ in children, and the other two studies show that fluoride crosses the placenta, thereby affecting brain development of the baby before birth.
Said Deputy Sinnott, "For 45 years, successive Irish governments have insisted on continuing the practice of adding fluoride to public water supplies. This despite the fact that throughout this time concerned groups of citizens have sought to end water fluoridation and all other European governments have ceased water fluoridation with the exception of some local authorities in Britain and one or two Spanish cities."
The Irish Authorities only response to date has been to make a marginal reduction in the amount of fluoride added to drinking water and to warn that young children should be supervised when brushing with fluoride toothpaste to prevent swallowing fluoride. No warnings have been issued to alert parents not to make up infant formula with fluoridated tap water -- which the American Dental Association did in Nov 2006 --- and there have been no warnings of the risks of women who during pregnancy drink Irish tap water or products made from it.
Concluded Mrs. Sinnott, "It is time for our Government to stop mass medicating its people. I call the Irish Government to stop fluoridating our drinking water and protect the health of all our citizens."
Kathy Sinnott, MEP for Ireland South and Member of the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety Committee, and Dr Vyvyan Howard recently met with the European Commission's Public Health and Consumer Protection directorate on the dangers to human health posed by water fluoridation in Ireland.
Dr. Howard, of the University of Ulster, is a fetal toxicologist studying the effects of toxins on the health and development of babies before birth. He pointed out that we are compromising human health from conception by adding fluoride to drinking water. Toxic fluoride compounds are known to affect many other parts of the body including bones, teeth, thyroid as well as the developing brain. The excuse that it helps teeth should be questioned when nearly four in ten Irish teenagers have dental fluorosis -- permanent damage to the tooth enamel -- and this is three times that of their counterparts in unfluoridated Northern Ireland.
Commented Kathy Sinnott, who is hosting MEP to two petitions on fluoridation and Vice President of the Petitions Committee, "Over the last 20 years the Chinese have done extensive research on the effects of fluoride on brain development in children. Those studies which are already accessible to us in English, should cause us to be very concerned that public water supplies in Ireland are deliberately fluoridated for the simple reason that this fluoridated water may be affecting expectant mothers here."
Seven of the most recent studies are scheduled to be published in English by the end of the year. However even now there is sufficient evidence for us to demand the immediate cessation of Irish water fluoridation. Five of the seven studies indicate that fluoride causes a significant lowering of IQ in children, and the other two studies show that fluoride crosses the placenta, thereby affecting brain development of the baby before birth.
Said Deputy Sinnott, "For 45 years, successive Irish governments have insisted on continuing the practice of adding fluoride to public water supplies. This despite the fact that throughout this time concerned groups of citizens have sought to end water fluoridation and all other European governments have ceased water fluoridation with the exception of some local authorities in Britain and one or two Spanish cities."
The Irish Authorities only response to date has been to make a marginal reduction in the amount of fluoride added to drinking water and to warn that young children should be supervised when brushing with fluoride toothpaste to prevent swallowing fluoride. No warnings have been issued to alert parents not to make up infant formula with fluoridated tap water -- which the American Dental Association did in Nov 2006 --- and there have been no warnings of the risks of women who during pregnancy drink Irish tap water or products made from it.
Concluded Mrs. Sinnott, "It is time for our Government to stop mass medicating its people. I call the Irish Government to stop fluoridating our drinking water and protect the health of all our citizens."
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